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Motion Estimation for Video Coding:Efficient Algorithms and Architectures
The need of video compression in the modern age of visual communication cannot be over-emphasized. This monograph will provide useful information to the postgraduate students and researchers who wish to work in the domain of VLSI design for video processing applications. In this book, one can find an in-depth discussion of several motion estimation algorithms and their VLSI implementation as co…
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- 978-3-319-14375-0
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- XVIII, 157
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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National Innovation Efficiency During the Global Crisis
What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current economic literature to measure and compare t…
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- 978-1-137-58254-6
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- XVII, 184
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National Forest Inventories
The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general overview over availability and use of wood resources in different countries, it provides a unique collection of original contributions from national forest inventory experts with in-depth de…
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- 978-3-319-44014-9
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- XXXII, 845
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National College Entrance Exam in China
This book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an important measurement of education quality in China, from both education economics and education policy perspectives. It provides a better understanding and stimulates more sophisticated evaluations of NCEE-related policies in China from the perspectives of education equity, the effectiveness of education input, and education qu…
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- 978-981-10-0508-4
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- XXI, 90
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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National Basketball Association Strategies
This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities in the teams’ markets and performances and then as members of divisions and conferences. It measures and compares the emergence, develop…
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- 978-3-319-10057-9
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- XI, 125
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Energy Policy Making in the EU Building the Agenda
The book adopts an innovative analytical approach to agenda setting by not only presenting successful cases in which energy issues were addressed by means of public policy, but by also analyzing failed attempts to make issues part of the European policy agenda. Another outstanding feature of the book is its use of the latest empirical data on a broad range of energy issues. When are energy i…
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- 978-1-4471-6645-0
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- 14 b/w illustrations
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Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 10th …
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2015, held in Hong Kong, China, in January 2015. The 36 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on discrete and continuous optimization; image re…
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- 978-3-319-14612-6
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- 179 b/w illustrations
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Organometallics and Related Molecules for Energy Conversion
This book presents a critical perspective of the applications of organometallic compounds (including those with metal or metalloid elements) and other related metal complexes as versatile functional materials in the transformation of light into electricity (solar energy conversion) and electricity into light (light generation in light emitting diode), in the reduction of carbon dioxide to usefu…
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- 978-3-662-46054-2
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- Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology
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- 333.79 ORG
Energy Law: An Introduction
The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic. It is intended for a global audience and rather than being restricted to potential energy law students of a particular country. It is also written for students of other disciplines such as geographers, social scientists and engineers. It should also be engaging to those in a variety of professional practices who want an a…
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- 978-3-319-14191-6
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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Energy Law in Brazil Oil, Gas and Biofuels
This book describes the energy-law situation in Brazil. It focuses on three specific energy sectors: oil, natural gas and biofuel. The decision to concentrate on these areas takes into account the role that these energy sectors play in the economic, political and legal systems in Brazil, as well as the fact that they are the primary subjects of current discussions surrounding economic regulatio…
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- 978-3-319-14268-5
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- 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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